Writing and Reading from a Mac

Setting read and write permissions for the Mac appletviewer from Sun (1.0.2) is less than intuitive. The trick is to find the file System/Preferences/.hotjava/properties. In this file you will find a number of variables that can be set to control the behavior of the appletviewer. To allow writing you change the acl.write and acl.write.default properties. These should be set equal to the directory that you want to be able to write to. For instance:

acl.write=/Macintosh HD/ Student Temporary Folder
acl.write.default=/Macintosh HD/ Student Temporary Folder

The same applies for reading:

acl.read=/Macintosh HD/ Student Temporary Folder
acl.read.default=/Macintosh HD/ Student Temporary Folder

When you restart the appletviewer you will be able to read and write.